That was the case not using open-source drivers for me too. But now it’s better, yes it’s hotter a bit, but fan is not on forever like it was. 52C at normal conditions. When it gets hotter quick, like was mine when whatching flash/youtube in hd to 80+C, most commonly it is because of dust =) Yea I cleaned it 3 times already. Thick layer of dust between heatsink and fan, it’s not visible from outside. Last time I even disassemle fan for cleaning and added some oil, it’s a bit quiter now.

How you made your SSD+HDD upgrade? I never used dvd drive so I just removed it and used that space (before that I was thinkg to add a battery there like on thinkpads) and installed ssd to regular hdd bay.

Hi! I haven’t updated yet to PP 12.04, but with the last distros, my FW21E did much noise with the fan… someone have found a solution to the noise-fan? (vaio fand didn’t work).
I have an ATI mobility radeon HD 3400.
Thank you!
PS great hardware choice!😉

its nice to see you posting back again egaistek!
I did the same upgrade (SSD) with my fw11e and 12.04 and very pleased with both stability and functionality.
However ongoing versions 12.10,13.04 has xserver and kernel upgrade. Ati announced that HD34xx cards are not supported for this upgrades anymore.
I know that there are patches for that but I’m not satisfied with that workarounds.
Open source drivers were allways has issues with power management and fan voice issues for me.
After ssd upgrade I am very pleased with my 5 year old vaio in both windows (7) and ubuntu. However my next viao (may be not vaio) will definitely has intel graphics.